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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy can't he hold a glass of water?
This is not new either. Saw it sometime last year.
Link to tweet
live love laugh
(16,262 posts)2naSalit
(100,980 posts)Clash City Rocker
(3,546 posts)Look at this comparison of Trump five years ago vs. now...
https://mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1271849561129091073?s=21
Hes slurring his speech, he looks awkward when he stands, he has trouble holding things. These are symptoms of dementia.
LudwigPastorius
(14,383 posts)Last edited Sat Jun 13, 2020, 10:31 PM - Edit history (1)
He seems energized and interested when talking about himself.
Conversely, he always seems like a sleepy, grumpy nine-year-old reading a book report when he's telepromptering about a non-Trump subject.
That aside, he's always been crazy. Now he's crazy, tired, and beginning to realize that he is defeated.
GoCubsGo
(34,748 posts)Dementia, various degenerative cervical spine/nerve diseases, and carpal tunnel syndrome have been mentioned. I could see any of them being at the root of this, including the latter, considering how much of his time is spent typing in tweets on his phone. I'll add another possibility: His muscles are so atrophied from not exercising that he doesn't even have the strength to pick up a glass of water. Also notice that he does a lot more seated "round table" discussions, rather than stand-up press conferences. Is he so out of shape that he can't stand up for more than a few minutes at a time?
malaise
(294,173 posts)I saw the water incident today
Elwood P Dowd
(11,453 posts)when playing golf or conducting Hitler rallies.
GoCubsGo
(34,748 posts)Consider that he spends most of his game driving around in a cart. He drives right up on the green so that he doesn't have to walk very far. That does a good job of covering up some of what ails him as far as walking goes, whether it's because he can't, or because he won't. I'm no fan of golf, but even I can see from the videos of him playing that his swing is terrible, and on the weak side. Don't know if that's due to disease/degeneration, or if he always sucked. Probably both.
malaise
(294,173 posts)That's good enough for me
sarge43
(29,173 posts)I know, we're shocked.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)He rides around in a cart for almost the whole course (even onto the greens) and gets out and whacks the ball a few times.
brush
(61,033 posts)when trying to do smaller, more precise movements with their hands. It'll just get worse, but it's ok, we're putting his old ass out to pasture come November.
Faux pas
(16,229 posts)betting dementia too.
WinstonSmith4740
(3,422 posts)My mom had Alzheimer's/dementia, and my late husband had a stroke. If Trump had a stroke, it was mild. There would be no hiding the effects of a major one. He's more in step with what I saw with my mom. A slow glide path, with an ugly end.
Faux pas
(16,229 posts)mom had Alzheimer's too. Nothing good or pretty about it.
BamaRefugee
(3,880 posts)oasis
(53,433 posts)LizBeth
(11,222 posts)csziggy
(34,189 posts)I have big hands for a woman, but my fingers are very short. With all but small diameter glasses and bottles, I have to use two hands to securely hold them - my fingers just don't reach far enough around big containers to get a solid grip so I end up using both hands to hold items. Also, at almost 68 I am losing strength in my grip which used to be able to help with holding some larger containers
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Not a Big Gulp.
Assuming you don't have some sort of neurological problem, I'm sure you would have managed just fine.
tblue37
(68,341 posts)when he was rushed to the hospital.
Of course, this isn't the first time we've seen him struggle with water.
intrepidity
(8,575 posts)roamer65
(37,852 posts)Gothmog
(176,745 posts)Gothmog
(176,745 posts)Auggie
(32,982 posts)Gothmog
(176,745 posts)Cha
(317,721 posts)MissB
(16,344 posts)White House doctor rode with him.
Maybe a stroke then.
niyad
(130,475 posts)Cha
(317,721 posts)BLOTUS is the Hell Monster & always mocking everyone else.. remember him mocking the disabled reporter? Well, I look at this as his Karma is a MF.
Link to tweet
alittlelark
(19,105 posts)lindysalsagal
(22,840 posts)Distemper
Botany
(76,697 posts)N/t
Ponietz
(4,229 posts)dalton99a
(92,843 posts)Botany
(76,697 posts)Just saying
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)All of these medical explanations. Stroke? Dementia?
Pshaw!
Hes a fucking moron who has to have other people feed and dress him.
He isnt just demented - hes always been this stupid.
Too stupid to know how to drink from a glass like a human.
GoCubsGo
(34,748 posts)He's probably terrified of having to drink something other than Diet Coke, and of drinking out of something with such a big opening.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Omg Im gonna pour this all over my face and the makeup will wash off! Ack!
Ms. Toad
(38,410 posts)He brings up his left hand just as he's trying to rotate the cup toward his mouth. i just had inflammation, but it was extremely painful.
mahina
(20,521 posts)Water all over his front is not a good look.
Gothmog
(176,745 posts)LudwigPastorius
(14,383 posts)His center of balance is fucked even when he's just standing. Put him on an incline, with the inability to see where his next step is, and it's Woooah, Nelly!
yaesu
(9,124 posts)pwb
(12,549 posts).
WheelWalker
(9,386 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)BHDem53
(1,122 posts)PCIntern
(28,091 posts)I think he has tardive dyskinesia. I stand by that.
Gothmog
(176,745 posts)Gothmog
(176,745 posts)Blue Owl
(58,610 posts)n/t
